The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has released juvenile arrest data drawn from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Crime in the United States 2006. Among the findings:

• Juvenile arrests for violent crimes increased modestly in 2005 and 2006. However, as the number of such arrests in 2004 was smaller than in any year since 1987, the number of juvenile arrests for violent crimes for 2006 was relatively low. Juvenile arrests for property crimes continued to decline and in 2006 were at their lowest level since at least 1980 (the first year of available data for this report). 
• In 1994, 1 of 6 alleged murder offenders known to law enforcement was under age 18. In 2006, this ratio was 1 in 11.
• Juveniles were involved in 13% of all violent crimes cleared in 2006 - specifically, 6% of murders, 12% of forcible rapes, 17% of robberies, and 12% of aggravated assaults.
• The growth in the juvenile murder arrest rate from 2004 to 2006 returned to near its 2002 level, but even with this increase the rate in 2006 was still 73% below its 1993 peak.
• The proportion of female offender entering the juvenile justice system has grown. Although the juvenile arrests for violent crimes declined 22% for males between 1997 and 2006, they decreased only 12% for females in the same period.